Word: bottlenecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heads-made of calfskin specially processed to make it extremely hard-are the bottleneck of the banjo business, and hard to come by. Manufacturers were cautious about ordering skins until they were sure the plinkety-plunk was here to stay for a while. They are sure now. Banjos have been invading TV- notably on the Robert Q. Lewis Show and the Canada Dry commercials. Harvard and M.I.T. students have formed banjo groups, and the University of Wisconsin has hired Virtuoso José Silva to play a "History of the Banjo" series in the fall...
...command. Some U.S. experts believe the Chinese, besides thinking about atom bombs, are probably in the "active planning stage" in developing nuclear energy to supplement their inadequate sources of power. But even as the captive experts solve the purely scientific side of their atomic projects, there remains a big bottleneck in underdeveloped China: the highly specialized and refined engineering equipment required for mass production...
...maintain proficiency in the newest weapons, of course. But the Commission observed that "regular forces would be immediately available for duty in the theatre of operations. Inactive reservists could complete their field training by the time shipping was available for their transportation." Transportation, not training, would be the bottleneck slowing the mobilization of inactive reservists with just six months of basic training...
Lamont's lobby, said a fifth anniversary visitor last year, looks a good deal like a theater foyer. But, unlike theaters, which try to keep their turnstiles spinning, each night Lamont turns its checkout system into an immense glass-and-marble bottleneck...
Last week Philco Corp. announced that it has licked this production bottleneck by a delicate electrochemical method of "machining" germanium. Two hair-thin streams of a liquid indium salt are squirted at opposite sides of a tiny slab of germanium. The streams carry an electric current, and their electrified liquid slowly dissolves the germanium. When they have almost drilled through the slab, leaving only a few ten-thousandths of an inch, the current is quickly reversed. The drilling stops, and the reversed current deposits metallic indium on both sides of the thin germanium wafer. The result is a transistor with...